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This may have been explained before but if so I cannot find it. I currently have 3 installs of M-11. I have M-11 upgraded to kernel 3.1pae w/kde @4.7.2 that works very nice on a toshiba tecra laptop... has no Dolphin as su., next I have my signature box which has M-11 on 2 partitions... one is M-11 with kernel 3.1pae & kde 4.7.4 ...work nice has no Dolphin as su either., but third is my main install in my sig that is M-11 with very mixed repos including Ubuntu Oneric and somehow it has managed to retain a working Dolphin as su. I very much like having Dolphin as su available as it has saved my tail many times when my lack of konsole saavy could not. I have tried to figure out where the package is available or where it originally came from without much success. I see some stuff by Stevo in the community repos but nothing that specifically says Dolphin as su. Can someone enlighten me on Dolphin as su?; on my working install I have 2 "file cabinet" icons for Dolphin... a blue icon is Dolphin and a red icon is Dolphin as su. Thanks, Jerry

Next time you do an upgrade from a base install keep your configs. Don't use the new ones.

Here's Warren's two 'as su' right-click servicemenus .desktop files.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18456966/editsu.desktop
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18456966/konsoleheresu.desktop

{the editsu file has the change mentioned here: viewtopic.php?p=268057#p268057}

Put them in the /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ folder.

Are you asking how to recreate it?

• Start the Menu Editor and create a new item. Call it "Dolphin as su."
• Description is "File Manager as su."
• The command should be dolphin %i -caption "%c" %u
• On the advanced tab, check "Run as different user."
• Click the icon and set it to the red file cabinet.

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Or do what kmathern said.

you create the new item in System
Call it Dolphin as root

and the command is

choose an icon, save and that is it. no adding run as a different user or anything else
saying all that what is wrong with using the root menu.

I was just quoting what is on my Menu.

I was wondering about that myself, though I recall in one of his threads that he hadn't actually installed sram.

But I think he did afterwards,
One thing that bugs me is Dolphin as su, which if you think about it is an impossibility, you use su to get to root.
so why not put Dolphin as root, because that is what you are waning to do, use Dolphin as the root user.

Agree that Dolphin as root is more accurate, it just lists as su in the system menu so thats what I called it.

Anyway, thanks for the "how to make it happen". I'll add it to my other 2 installs. Thanks again, Jerry

kde-servicemenu-rootactions in the CR is another way to get the option to open Dolphin as root.